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Media is essential for success

Pictures and videos increase the impact of everything your business creates, whether it's image-rich brochures and presentations, glossy magazines, bold Websites, or social-network posts. Every picture is worth a thousand words. And so, these days, every company must be a media company.

Transparency, speed and responsiveness

Want more than 15 minutes of fame? The latest ideas and trends only hold people momentarily before they're on to the next. If you can react quickly to relevant facts and events, you can take over their interpretation and use news to effectively target your markets.

Web-based media platform

What if there was one place where all your company’s media files – past, present, and future – were easily accessible to all? Doesn't matter if it's the most recent photo shoot, the last marketing campaign, or images purchased from a third party. Bring your internal archives, sources, and content partners under one roof with picturemaxx. You'll save time and money and gain efficiency. Guaranteed.

Working like a media company

picturemaxx has been working for media companies of all sizes for over 30 years and knows exactly what is important in the procurement, processing and distribution of images, videos and other media assets. Just use these experiences, adapted individually to the way of working in your company.

Fast and easy approach

The introduction of Digital Asset Management with picturemaxx is not an IT project, but a solution for your business success. Numerous standardized templates and processes form the basis for your individual solution. Consulting and training by our team of experts is included.

February 02, 2015

New collection in my-picturemaxx: Historical RF images from Timeline Images

Timeline Images is the historical photo community of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung...

February 02, 2015

Sport Moments optimizes Webshop with picturemaxx BACKSTAGE

For the relaunch of their website, Sports and Entertainment Photo Agency Sport Moments relied on eCommerce...

January 28, 2015

foto2press from now on in my-picturemaxx

foto2press is a young photo agency that covers the top German sports...

December 24, 2014

PUBLIC ADDRESS Video new in my-picturemaxx

With its camera crews PUBLIC ADDRESS Presseagentur is represented on various events and offers high end content...

December 02, 2014

INTERFOTO - clearly structured in my-picturemaxx

When it comes to researching images it is a question of time and efficiency.

November 26, 2014

All Over Press Finland now available in my-picturemaxx

With over 20 years in the business All Over Press Finland is known for its range and high-quality images - Scandinavian lifestyle, features, food, travel, music, outdoor ...

November 25, 2014

See images of days gone by - All mauritius images/History now in my-picturemaxx

You now can find more than 20,000 historical images from mauritius under a new i-picturemaxx channel called "All mauritius images/History"...

In the photo editing department of ADAC publishing house, everything depends on speed and reach. With the ability to organize different photo agencies into groups, my-picturemaxx helps us find the right image quickly and efficiently.

agrar-pressSo far, we have been able to realise all adjustment requests directly with BACKSTAGE…Friederike KrickManaging Director

Friederike KrickManaging Directoragrar-press

At agrar-press the harvesters run throughout the year, cherry trees blossom even in winter and cows are being milked around the clock. Specially trained photographers and agricultural experts form a competent team behind the images. Our database and web portal are among the leading image providers in the agricultural sector. We use BACKSTAGE for the administration, the captioning and the marketing of our media. At agrar-press, we continously optimise our services with new photos, advanced search options, texts, new categories and special offers. So far, we have been able to realise all adjustment requests directly with BACKSTAGE and picturemaxx. During the many years of collaboration, picturemaxx has always proved a competent and professional partner.

BurdaIntermedia / Merchandising & LicensingThe high demand for images at BurdaIntermedia can only be satisfied by an optimal overview and ...Heinrich GöderzHead of ContentPool

The high demand for images at BurdaIntermedia can only be satisfied by an optimal overview and highly elaborated search options. We provide various services for the Hubert Burda Media publishing houses. Picturemaxx' Opengate-Publishing Server and the ContentPool help us provide the editorial departments with access to Burda's own image pool as well as to the comprehensive content provided by photographers, image providers and photo agencies.The search tool my-picturemaxx has thus become a reliable and attractive partner in image search and image acquisition.

Freizeitwoche VerlagMy colleagues and I in cannot imagine daily work without my-picturemaxx....Waltraud Frühe-MartinHead of Picture Editing

Waltraud Frühe-MartinHead of Picture EditingFreizeitwoche Verlag

My colleagues and I cannot imagine daily work without my-picturemaxx. Searching in groups and other functions make it easy to select images quickly and efficiently. This is extremely helpful in the hectic editorial working environment. I like the versatility, the clarity and the speed of the research.

INF Photo/ INF Germany GmbHSeveral built-in statistics functions deliver important insights into customer behaviour, which can be used for targeted marketing....Ann-Catherine GerberSales Manager

Ann-Catherine GerberSales ManagerINF Photo/ INF Germany GmbH

When INF Germany was founded at the end of 2012, an efficient workflow in order to reduce cost and administration was important to us. Due to my longterm-experience in the business I was very familiar with the photo industry market. We chose BACKSTAGE since we could not find any real alternatives for a webbased and at the same time affordable solution.In the fast-moving celebrity business, speed, distribution and availability of images at high quality in my-picturemaxx are crucial. BACKSTAGE is perfectly able to master this mixture of requirements. Several built-in statistics functions deliver important insights into customer behaviour, which can be used for targeted marketing.

obs / news aktuell GmbHTo be found among the flood of images is what counts for our customers....Sandra LiebichProduct Manager Distribution

Sandra LiebichProduct Manager Distributionobs / news aktuell GmbH

o be found among the flood of images is what counts for our customers. For photo editors, looking to visualize a current topic, picturemaxx is often the first point of contact. Here they can find our customers' pr-images, all labelled by the abbreviation "obs", among all other editorial content. This increases the probability of usage significantly, especially since they can be used free of charge. Thus, all companies, political institutions, associations and NGOs using news aktuell to distribute their pr-images will automatically be noticed by the image buyers. This pleases our customers and serves the photo editors at the same time.

FUNKE MediengruppeToday WAZ FotoPool is a nationwide fixed size, regarding images from the Ruhr region…Mark-Oliver MulthaupManaging Director FUNKE Digital and Head of FotoPool

Mark-Oliver MulthaupManaging Director FUNKE Digital and Head of FotoPoolFUNKE Mediengruppe

Good journalism will always be in demand. Only today people want to consume imformation through the different media sources and without a second thought. In addition, content needs relevance. Therefore the FUNKE Media Group focuses on regional aspects. Accordingly, our own agency WAZ FotoPool which was founded in 2009, specializes in the Ruhr and Rhine-Westphalia area. As our own photo editors work with my-picturemaxx, it was only natural to distribute the WAZ FotoPool images through the same system. Today our FotoPool is a nationwide fixed size, regarding images from the Ruhr region. Both, marketing and management of our images are carried out most efficiently by BACKSTAGE.

laif Agentur für Photos & Reportagen GmbHA reliable partnership in the technical sector is extremely important for us ...Regina PlaarHead of Marketing & Sales and Member of the Management Board

Over the last 10 years the photo industry has changed dramatically. Photographers and agencies find themselves in an environment of significantly risen competition and unrelenting price pressure, in which outstanding quality is becoming increasingly important. At the same time, the demand for new applications and forms of usage rapidly increases. Therefore, a reliable working enviroment and partnership in the technical sector are essential. The picturemaxx support system is excellent, which is one of the reasons for our years of collaboration.

As an agency director, I can live my passion for photojournalism daily. Every day I get to look at great productions by our photographers from around the world. As a mediator between photographers and clients from the magazine sector, we need technology of the highest standard, to process the amount of images we receive daily. Picturemaxx is a great help. We are delighted with their excellent service. We have developed together. It is a give and take.

WAHAPRESS PressebüroWe especially like the fact that the functions are all linked to each other and presented consisely…Michael WahaManaging Director

Michael WahaManaging DirectorWAHAPRESS Pressebüro

Our journalistic focus lies on the photo and text coverage of celebrities in the German speaking music business. This includes exclusive home stories as well as interviews, worldwide travel reports and Cover-Shootings. In our business everything has to be fast and work processes must be efficiently organized. In 2010 we therefore decided to use BACKSTAGE for the management of our photos. Working on the move now is a breeze. Archive, indexing, web shop, Customer Management - everything we need is integrated. We especially like the fact that the functions are all linked to each other and presented consisely.

Westend61 GmbHWe always try to respond as quickly as possible to market developments as well as customer requirements ...Stephan BockOwner

Stephan BockOwnerWestend61 GmbH

We always try to respond as quickly as possible to market developments as well as customer requirements. Currently mobile photography is a big issue. As the first german picture agency we therefore created a collection which solely consists of smartphone images: the SMART Collection. This collection complements the content of Westend61 - in the current trend - with images that are usually taken spontaneously and are implemented creatively through various apps and filters.

With our fresh, creative imagery we primarily aim to reach advertising agencies, graphic designers and editors. Therefore, since 2005, we have been offering our images via the media search engine my-picturemaxx. Thus, from the very beginning we had access to a wide range of image buyers. We especially appreciate that picturemaxx constantly acquires new potential image buyers for the platform. Another strong point is the distribution of images to business partners around the world, through our BACKSTAGE system. The picturemaxx software is best suited for this purpose.

As a picture agency focusing on topics in the fields of health and geography we collaborate with many specialized photographers as well as partner agencies around the world. In the past, that meant hours of importing data from hard drives or CDs - whenever a partner provided new content. Today, the content of partners agencies can easily be accessed through dynamic interfaces, offered by picturemaxx. This also works vice versa. Media files from Your Photo Today can be marketed through portals or other partner agencies, simply with a couple of mouse clicks.

my-picturemaxx is an invaluable tool for Cornelsen Schulverlage and our modern editorial workflow. It gives us access to a huge selection of images and allows us to easily create selections for our teaching and learning products. The solution-oriented cooperation and industry expertise of picturemaxx allows us to efficiently meet the new challenges of the education market in a digital world.

Ostkreuzschule für Fotografiemy-picturemaxx enables us to provide a practical approach in the training for qualified picture editors...Nadja MasriLecturer and freelance picture editor

The Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie is one of the few institutions that provide vocational training to picture editors. In addition to working on projects, photo research is another important part of the two-semester study program. We do of course also introduce the common tools of the trade, such as the my-picturemaxx media search tool. To have knowledge of this tool is a basic requirement in many editorial departments. picturemaxx provides licences of the software free of charge to the participants of the study program as well as on-site introductions. Thus, by helping us create a rather practical oriented training for the picture editors, picturemaxx makes a valuable contribution to high-quality education within the branch.